I'm starting with this even though it's kind of the middle thing I did, just 'cuz it's so pretty. 

So let's go through it.

1.  Top left hand corner, I was painting some clouds. They dried very quickly, so I moved on to the next thing -

2. quilting some background branches and trunks,

3.  there they are on the background (which also had some abstract ground work done)

4. (bottom left hand corner) Then, because I'm still in a birches kind of mood, I laid some down. You can see I had started the hand-stitching part;

5. I added some gray paint to the plain white one on the right, so you can see how I did it; and

6. The birch trees are done (you'll see I knocked back the background leaves a bit with some cream paint) and I also  stuck in a fence. More to come on this piece, later this week.

And the REASON I was doing that, was because...

Because it's a "Little Kit" piece, Emmy Elephant has to put in a re-appearance as well, too, right?

I wanted her head in this specific position because Little Kit* is going to tuck in there in that empty space.

Clearly, I've changed Emmy's eye shape rather drastically, ...